Chennai: Officers of nationalised banks are planning to strike work on 29 August 2002. Members of All India Bank Officers’ Confederation, All India Bank Officers’ Association, Indian National Bank Officers’ Congress and National Organisation of Bank Officers are to take part in the one-day strike. The strike is to highlight their demands for a better wage agreement.

It is learnt that the representatives of the four officers’ organisations had informal discussions with the Indian Banks Association in Mumbai recently, when the latter is understood to have expressed its inability to concede their demands.

Union sources say some of the long-pending issues, such as anomalies in the last wage revision, halting allowance disparities and income tax on perquisites, remained unresolved despite repeated reminders.